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From wire reports • Thursday May 16, 2013 6:50 AM

HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS — A Texas inmate convicted of killing a plainclothes Houston police
officer who was trying to arrest him was put to death by lethal injection yesterday, the sixth
person executed in the state this year, authorities said.

Jeffrey Williams, 37, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. local time at a state prison in
Huntsville, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a statement.

Williams was the 12th inmate executed in the United States this year, according to the Death
Penalty Information Center.